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California leads the way again! The truth is most plastic bags don’t get recycled, and as we now know, plastic particles are affecting the food chain in the oceans. Hemp is a suitable alternative for making ‘throw away’ totes.

“Reports show that traditional breeding techniques are years ahead of GM technologies in developing crops to withstand drought and poor soils, writes Lawrence Woodward. Yet GM advocates are sticking rigidly to their script even as the evidence mounds against them.”

UC is a key partner in the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT), a spectacular
initiative that will couple unprecedented light collection area (almost 10
times more than one of the Keck telescopes) with diffraction-limited
spatial resolution. Relative to the Hubble Space Telescope, TMT will have
144 times the collecting area and more than a factor of 10 better spatial
resolution at near-infrared wavelengths.

We invite you to join us for a webcast of the Thirty Meter Telescope
Groundbreaking and Blessing Ceremony, which will take place atop Mauna Kea
Volcano in Hawaii next Tuesday, October 7 marking the start of on-site
construction for the TMT Observatory. There will be a live, worldwide
webcast, featuring actor and director George Takei (Star Trek), who will
present science segments.

Please join us on Tuesday, October 7 in the Interdisciplinary Science
Building room 102 from 2-4 p.m. for a live stream of the event.
Refreshments will be served.

Nice! I’ve seen the Very Large Array, and visited the Sunspot Observatory here in NM. Always very interesting people to meet, and images to see. They don’t seem to mind “dumbing down” what they are doing for me to appreciate. the TMT is just another reason to plan a trip.

Traditional breeding techniques make sense as one can more easily observe and breed for the qualities that one wants. Humans have been using these techniques for thousands of years. Just take a look at our fruits and vegetables. We don’t need no GMO’s.

GMO labeling will be on the ballot in November in Oregon. I hope it passes. One county in Oregon has already banned the planting of GMO seeds.

Have any of the rightwhiners who are fear mongering over “this administration’s inability to deal with Ebola” so much as suggested a little emergency funding for the CDC? Of course not. In fact; is there any doubt that they would block any attempt to allocate additional funds? Of course not. The freaks would exist in a state of perpetual orgasm if there was an outbreak while the first black president was in office.

I don’t know if this freak has kids and, if he does, I don’t wish them any harm. But?

I would love to see this freak’s response if one of his postulated children was diagnosed with Ebola, AIDS, or Hep C. Would he argue that they should be “humanely put down” or would he move Heaven and earth to try and save them?

I really, really, wish we could find the bottom. Every time I think I have finally discovered the bottom of the right-wing barrel I find a whole new barrel.

BTW, Ebb. My fish are doing well, my new RC airplane project is progressing nicely, and Banzai Kitty is still one of the best cats I’ve ever had. He has even mastered the art of jumping up into my arms without digging in any claws! Add in a few ounces of high-test peppermint schnapps and life is pretty good. Hoping that your life is going equally well.

…According to The Press-Democrat, the rider – one of 7,000 cyclists participating in the race – took a spill after the squirrel darted onto the course and became lodged in the spokes of his bike. The squirrel died; the man reportedly flipped over his handlebars and hit the ground.

My god, it might be an ISIS suicide squirrel. Its entirely possible that an ISIS cell has been training squirrels (probably in Canada) to run into bicycles and letting them loose at the border I must add this to the list of dangers I should worry about, tout de suite.😯

The Twitterverse is abuzz with rumors that actor Stephen Collins has shot himself. Though he was cleared by LAPD in a 2012 investigation to possible child molestation charges (against underage girls, as near as I can tell), TMZ released a tape in which someone who sounds like him confesses to his ex-wife that he molested some girls. A neighbor, actress Donna D’Errico tweeted this:

That guy from 7th Heaven lives right around the corner from me & just shot himself a few minutes ago…